EP0056813B1 - Kontrollsystem für die dampfabgabe - Google Patents
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- EP0056813B1 EP0056813B1 EP81902173A EP81902173A EP0056813B1 EP 0056813 B1 EP0056813 B1 EP 0056813B1 EP 81902173 A EP81902173 A EP 81902173A EP 81902173 A EP81902173 A EP 81902173A EP 0056813 B1 EP0056813 B1 EP 0056813B1
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02C—GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
- F02C3/00—Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working fluid
- F02C3/20—Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working fluid using a special fuel, oxidant, or dilution fluid to generate the combustion products
- F02C3/30—Adding water, steam or other fluids for influencing combustion, e.g. to obtain cleaner exhaust gases
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
- F01K—STEAM ENGINE PLANTS; STEAM ACCUMULATORS; ENGINE PLANTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ENGINES USING SPECIAL WORKING FLUIDS OR CYCLES
- F01K21/00—Steam engine plants not otherwise provided for
- F01K21/04—Steam engine plants not otherwise provided for using mixtures of steam and gas; Plants generating or heating steam by bringing water or steam into direct contact with hot gas
- F01K21/047—Steam engine plants not otherwise provided for using mixtures of steam and gas; Plants generating or heating steam by bringing water or steam into direct contact with hot gas having at least one combustion gas turbine
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F22—STEAM GENERATION
- F22B—METHODS OF STEAM GENERATION; STEAM BOILERS
- F22B35/00—Control systems for steam boilers
- F22B35/007—Control systems for waste heat boilers
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F22—STEAM GENERATION
- F22B—METHODS OF STEAM GENERATION; STEAM BOILERS
- F22B35/00—Control systems for steam boilers
- F22B35/06—Control systems for steam boilers for steam boilers of forced-flow type
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02E20/00—Combustion technologies with mitigation potential
- Y02E20/14—Combined heat and power generation [CHP]
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- This invention relates to a dual working fluid heat engine which comprises a compressor for compressing air, a combustion chamber fed by said compressor for combustion of the air with a fuel directly introduced into said combustion chamber, thus forming the first working fluid, means for injecting a second working fluid into said combustion chamber, a core turbine receiving the exhaust gases, being a mixture of said first working fluid and said second working fluid, from said combustion chamber and driving said compressor, a work turbine, receiving the exhaust gases from said core turbine, and a counterflow heat exchanger, receiving the exhaust gases from said work turbine and the second working fluid for heating the second working fluid from its liquid state into superheated steam which is injected into said combustion chamber by said means, said counterflow heat exchanger comprising an evaporator and a superheater section, if fuel combustion is the source of energy for the gas turbine, or which comprises a compressor for compressing a first working fluid, a primary heat exchanger receiving the first working fluid from said compressor and heating said first working fluid using solar energy or nuclear energy, means for injecting a second working fluid into the flow
- the steam from the counterflow heat exchanger flows through a control valve at the outlet from the superheater. It is traditional that the steam control valve is located at the output end of the boiler. This control valve normally controls the rate of steam flow.
- this object is achieved by locating a single control valve between said evaporator and said superheater sections of said counterflow heat exchanger for regulating the steam generation rate.
- the exit of the superheater section is preferably directly connected to the combustion chamber mixing the superheated steam with the combustion products.
- the evaporator section includes a liquid storage drum, and a co-generation valve is provided to allow high pressure steam to be drawn from said liquid storage drum for co-generation purposes.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of a Cheng dual-fluid cycle heat engine 10.
- the engine typically uses air as the first working fluid. Fuel combustion with the air is a typical source of energy, and water is a typical second working fluid. Air enters a compressor 14 at 12 where it is adiabatically compressed.
- the first working fluid can be heated in other ways besides combustion; for example, by solar energy or nuclear energy in combination with a heat exchanger in place of the combustor (see. e.g. US-A-4128 994). For the remainder of this description, it is assumed that the first working fluid is heated by combustion.
- Water the second working fluid, is compressed to a high pressure by pump 22.
- the high pressure water enters waste heat boiler or regenerator 30 where waste exhaust heat is absorbed from the steam/combustion product mixture exhausted from the expander 28. There the water is heated to superheated vapor. Because of the latent heat of evaporation of water, much of the heat absorbed by any water converted- to steam is absorbed at essentially constant temperature, i.e. boiling temperature.
- the super-heated steam from the regenerator 30 then enters the combustion chamber 16 where it is mixed with the combustion products through turbulent mixing.
- the amount of superheated steam provided to the combustion chamber 16 is regulated by control valve 44.
- the mixture of the two working fluids then enters an expander or core turbine 26, which drives the compressor 14, then enters another expander or work turbine 28.
- These expanders convert the thermal energy of the two working fluids into mechanical work, to drive the compressor 14 and to produce net work output.
- Waste heat boiler 30 is a counter flow heat exchanger used to regenerate the waste heat from the cycle.
- the gas side of the heat exchanger contains the gas mixture which drops in temperature from the power turbine 28 discharge to a temperature at or above the saturation temperature of the water in the gas mixture. This saturation temperature is a function of the partial pressure of the steam in the gas mixture.
- water under pressure is heated from approximately ambient temperature to super-heated steam. From the heat exchanger the gas mixture is discharged into condenser 29 or vented.
- the proper amount of water is metered and pumped to the liquid side of the heat exchanger for regeneration ahead of the combustor.
- the remaining water is passed through a cooling tower or other cooling means and then reused in the condenser.
- the prior Cheng cycle patent defines the peak operating condition cycle parameters to design an engine for 100 percent load. Because of the parallel combined nature of the Brayton and Rankine cycles in this engine, the quantity and quality of steam that can be generated by a given engine configuration can be varied freely over a range.
- the control path for the steam cycle is essentially independent of that for the gas turbine cycle.
- the control path for throttling the engine is essentially free or undefined.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a typical waste heat boiler 30. It is made up of three sections, an economizer 32, an evaporator 34, and a superheater 36.
- Feedwater pump 38 drives water into the economizer. Since liquid water is almost an incompressible fluid, water pump 38 does not have to do much work to pressurize the water.
- Steam is produced in the evaporator 34, and then further heated in the superheater 36, by exhaust gases which have exited from the turbine in the DFC engine 10. In Figure 2 the exhaust gases pass from left to right.
- Within the evaporator section 34 is a water storage drum 40 and a recirculating water pump 42 to increase liquid side flow velocity and to reduce the vapor-to-liquid ratio at the optimum heat transfer condition.
- Steam pressure is controlled in part by the heat transfer surface area, by a control valve, and, if excessive, by a blowoff valve (not shown).
- a control valve To convert steam energy into mechanical energy, steam should be fed into an energy converting device at the highest temperature and pressure economically possible for a given boiler design. Therefore, typically, the control valve 44 is mounted at the outlet of the boiler; that is at the superheater 30 outlet.
- the rate of steam flow is throttled back by the control valve 44.
- the steam turbine operates at a constant RPM; therefore, a governor control will be used ordinarily to keep the steam turbine at a constant RPM.
- the waste heat boiler designed for a dual fluid cycle engine to recover waste heat from the turbine exhaust operates at a very critical steam- to-air flow ratio.
- the steam In order to control the partial load of the turbine so as to reach all the peak steam-air flow ratio conditions, the steam must not only be critically metered according to the load, but it must be at the highest super heat condition. This becomes a very difficult task for the ordinary boiler steam control, as shown in Figure 2, because the thermal lag involved in the boiler system with such a large heated mass retards the response when more steam is needed. Conversely, the thermal inertia slows down the response to reduced load because the stored thermal energy in the steam has to be dissipated.
- FIG 3 shows an improved waste heat boiler 30' which is the waste heat boiler 30 of Figure 2 but with a steam control valve 44' located between the evaporator 34 and superheater 36 sections instead of at the output of the superheater 36.
- This valve location enables the superheater to achieve high superheat and facilitates operating on the peak efficiency points of a dual fluid cycle engine. Throttling the control valve 44' causes the boiler pressure in the evaporator to be higher. Ordinarily, the design surface areas of the boiler sections are determined by the maximum (design) power operating conditions. At this point heat transfer has to be balanced out through all three sections of the heat exchanger 30.
- a steam valve located at the outlet of the superheater as shown in Figure 2 does not give the steam conditions needed to operate a dual fluid cycle engine at peak efficiency at partial load.
- the boiler evaporator section pressure is higher under throttled conditions in spite of the fact that the area of the evaporator is excessive to the steaming requirements of throttled operation.
- the steaming rate is reduced by the reduced temperature difference between the heat transfer media and the steam control valve provides a self- adjusting heat transfer mechanism by means of the pressure drop used to control the steam flow rate.
- Throttling can be immediate simply by throttling back the steam, thus causing the pressure in the evaporator to build up.
- higher pressure steam is available as stored in the drum to give an instantaneous steam supply without the addition of heat momentarily to the superheater; concurrently, additional exhaust gas heat from the engine increases the temperature of the steam in the superheater to provide the appropriate degree of superheat for high efficiency operating conditions.
- a valve 45 allows steam to be drawn from drum 40 at high pressure, which is most useful for co-generation purposes. At the same time the remaining steam, at lower pressure, can still be heated by the turbine exhaust gas in the superheater section 36 to its highest enthalpy, only limited by the surface area of the superheater and thermodynamic constraints.
- Figure 4 shows the temperature profile across the waste heat boiler 30 of Figure 2.
- the lower curve is the temperature of the water/steam as it passes from right to left through the boiler 30.
- the temperature of the exhaust gas from the DFC engine turbine is the top curve. The gas moves from left to right in Figure 4.
- the temperatures designated in Figure 4 are:
- the superheated steam temperature drops to 475°F (246°C), state I.
- the temperature also drops from state G to state J because of the throttling effect of control valve 44'.
- the steam is eventually heated up to the desired temperature of 520°F (271°C) at state K.
- the temperature of the superheated steam is 45°F (25°C) higher and the waste heat boiler 30 of Figure 4 recovers 25 Btu/Ib (58,1 kj/kg) more waste heat enthalpy than otherwise.
- the initial temperature drop from state G to J helps to increase the log means temperature difference, hence does not require excessive surface area of the superheater 36.
- the Cheng DFC engine utilizes steam at very high temperatures at highly superheated states. If the DFC has a turbine inlet temperature of 2150°F (1177°C), and a compression ratio of 18 to 1, the turbine exhaust gas temperature will be on the order of 1000°F (538°C) or more. The desired steam temperature before the injection into the combustion chamber will be on the order of 959°F (515°C). At that temperature, a steam control valve has to use high temperature materials such as stainless steel. The size of the valve is large because the specific volume of the steam at high temperature is large.
- the steam control valve 36 throttles the steam in the neighborhood of steam saturation temperature so the material requirement is relaxed plus the specific volume is relatively small. Hence a smaller physical size of the throttle valve can be used. This reduces the cost and maintenance of the control system.
- This new invention also changes the characteristics of the boiler system.
- the response time of the boiler to produce steam is very slow, due to its large mass, i.e., thermal inertia.
- the boiler generally has excess surface area in the evaporator 34.
- the conventional control allows hot water to be wasted through a slow-down process or by bleeding steam for cogeneration.
- the boiler requires a time lag to come up with the right amount of steam.
- the temperature profile self limits the heat transfer to the evaporator.
- the high pressure steam stored in the drum stores high quality thermal energy, in the form of high energy containing steam, which can be tapped by opening up the control valve 44' instead of waiting for the slow steam build up due to thermal lag. This cuts down the response time of the dual fluid cycle engine by a large margin such that rapid acceleration and fast response time is obtained without overheating the engine components.
- the prior art has a control valve at the outlet of the waste heat boiler.
- the superheater has the same pressure as the steam drum.
- the boiler operates at approximately constant pressure in the evaporator sections.
- the present invention has a control valve between the evaporator and superheater.
- the pressure in the drum is used as an energy storage system to adjust the evaporator temperature difference between the exhaust gases and the steam.
- This control system has rapid response for steam supply. It also provides maximum superheat temperatures available to provide the steam quality required for efficient operation of a DFC engine system.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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| US06/175,287 US4393649A (en) | 1979-07-23 | 1980-08-04 | Steam output control system |
| US175287 | 1980-08-04 |
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| EP0056813A1 EP0056813A1 (de) | 1982-08-04 |
| EP0056813A4 EP0056813A4 (de) | 1984-02-07 |
| EP0056813B1 true EP0056813B1 (de) | 1988-06-29 |
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| EP81902173A Expired EP0056813B1 (de) | 1980-08-04 | 1981-08-04 | Kontrollsystem für die dampfabgabe |
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| US (1) | US4393649A (de) |
| EP (1) | EP0056813B1 (de) |
| JP (1) | JPS57501136A (de) |
| DE (1) | DE3176801D1 (de) |
| IT (1) | IT1138885B (de) |
| WO (1) | WO1982000493A1 (de) |
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| EP0056813A1 (de) | 1982-08-04 |
| IT1138885B (it) | 1986-09-17 |
| WO1982000493A1 (en) | 1982-02-18 |
| EP0056813A4 (de) | 1984-02-07 |
| US4393649A (en) | 1983-07-19 |
| IT8123205A0 (it) | 1981-07-28 |
| DE3176801D1 (en) | 1988-08-04 |
| JPS57501136A (de) | 1982-07-01 |
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